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1. Link farming with global Greenhouse Gases cuts targets. This is not easy, but must be a priority. We now have "severe weather" as a normal in the Earth's, but we have time to mitigate global warning.

To make these objective work the world need actions such as:

a. Stop deforestation because of crop and cattle expansion. We can protect the forests and feed the people at the same. The only think needed is searching best practices such as community grown farms, payments for protecting forests, and a best soil management (if we do not overuse the soil it can be used more time, so no farm expansion needed).

b. Change the actual farming system. Finding alternatives to burning (that is one of the most used system in the world) would help the world to cut CH4 and CO2 emmissions.

c. The establishment of a good local farming system is a good step to make stop the dependency on imported products... and our adicction to fossil fuels.

d. STOP ALL bio fuels that comes from crops. Bio fuels are a good alternative to fossil fuels if they come from wastes, but the ones that are from, for example, corn farms causes many GHG emissions... and are a threat to food security. We need the corn and the soy to eat. Food security is more important that fueling our vehicles.
It is urgent to governments to stop promoting bio fuels (and an international veto would be good).

2. Promote family and community-managed agriculture as a priority over large scale and corporative farming. The Earth has enough natural resources for a future with a very good food security. What we need is that these resources be managed accuratelly in the present... and the future. When agriculture lands is in hands of the communities (villages, town, cities, ect) its more easy to make them sustainable.

3. Creating policies that control food wasting is a must.

4. For a best future, we need to develop urban farming. Growing food products in cities is good practice. Most cities have spaces that would able (or are being used) to farm. Terraces, gardens, etc.

All objectives must be in a global scale, because hunger and food security are an international problem, not only of a few countries.

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This thematic discussion was led by FAO and WFP in collaboration with “The World We Want”.

The consultation was facilitated by the Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)